[gdal-dev] Re: OGR GML and other drivers producing text output: stdout, /dev/stdout and /vsistdout/

Hermann Peifer peifer at gmx.eu
Thu Sep 1 11:11:37 EDT 2011


On 01/09/2011 13:33, Even Rouault wrote:
>
> But yes, it lacks the special case to recognize /dev/stdout as a particular
> value where you must not try to write a file, which would avoid error [2].
>

Ticket created at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4225

>
> Yes we probably lack consistency in that area. I think the stdout case should be
> removed (should not affect many people as it was unadvertized feature), and only
> accept /dev/stdout and /vsistdout/ which are less hacky solutions.
>

Ticket created: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4226


Hermann


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